Sprinkled With Pink on Black Sabbath

#e7a2ae on #220022

Body text at this size

And the smaller size most interfaces actually use for paragraphs — the size that decides whether a pair is usable.

Caption text, which almost nothing passes.

WCAG 2.1

9.33:1

Passes AA for body text

AAA too. Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.

APCA

Lc -61.4

Clears Lc 60 — headlines and other larger text.

Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.

Colour difference

ΔE00 61.5

different colours

Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.

Nothing to fix

This pair already clears 4.5:1, so #e7a2ae can stay exactly as it is. Check another pair.

And to someone missing a cone

protanopia

Body text

Ratio 8.74:1, ΔE00 58.0.

deuteranopia

Body text

Ratio 9.63:1, ΔE00 64.4.

tritanopia

Body text

Ratio 10.22:1, ΔE00 69.6.

The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 58.0 apart against 61.5 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.

Both colours have pages of their own: Sprinkled With Pink ·Black Sabbath · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs